Valenzuela City - Transportation

Transportation

North Luzon Expressway with views going southbound (up), northbound (middle) and from Malinta Exit (down).

The KM 30 Mac Arthur Highway Intersection of Circumferential Road 5, or C5, a fork of NLEx, is located in barangay Karuhatan, Valenzuela. The northern side of the exit leads to Central Luzon while the southern will take users to Bonifacio Shrine in Balintawak, Quezon City. On the same hand, KM 28 NLEx Interchange of C5 in barangay Paso de Blas connects Valenzuela Cloverleaf of NLEx to C5 that goes to Central Luzon, Cagayan Valley, Ilocos Region and Cordillera Administrative Region. The cloverleaf is also connected to Mindanao Avenue in Quezon City through Segment 8.1 of NLEx, which also links Manila to NLEx. KM 28 NLEx Interchange is also known as Malinta Exit due to its proximity to barangay Malinta, as well as Tollgate to residents.

Valenzuela is also connected to Bulacan through MacArthur Highway which ends at Bonifacio Monument in Grace Park, Caloocan.

One of the well-known bridge in Valenzuela is the Tullahan bridge in barangay Marulas that connects the city to barangay Potrero in Malabon. Tullahan bridge is part of MacArthur Highway that was built during the Spanish era as a way of transporting vehicles over Tullahan River. In the span of years, it was renovated repeatedly, most recent was in 2008, though defects on the bridge began to appear barely six months after it opened for public use.

The city is webbed by hundreds of roads where 99.622% of them has a surface type of concrete while the remaining 0.378% were made of dirt. The Department of Public Works and Highways recognizes nine national bridges in Valenzuela, listed below. Other bridges are just minors that connect small cliffs and former landfill areas, like Malinta Bridge in barangay Malinta. City roads has an average road density of 1.155 kilometer of road per 100 square-kilometer of land area. Each road has an average road section of 155 sections and spans 54.267 km.

1. Canumay Bridge
2. Lingunan Bridge
3. Maysan Bridge
4. Polo Bridge
5. Santolan Bridge
6. Tenejeros-Tullahan River Bridge
7. Torres Bugallon Bridge
8. Ugong Bridge
9. Viente Reales Bridge

Bus companies founded terminals in barangay Malanday, northernmost locality of Valenzuela along the border with Bulacan, though there are terminals situated in barangays Dalandanan and Karuhatan as well. This includes Laguna Star Bus, PAMANA Transport Service, Inc., CEM Trans Services and Philippine Corinthian Liner, Inc. among others. These buses are lined with Metro Manila destinations only, usually in Alabang or Baclaran with routes along EDSA. Bus traffic is also dense at barangays Paso de Blas and Bagbaguin due to its proximity to KM 28 NLEx Interchange and bus terminals in Novaliches, Quezon City. Other modes of transportation includes jeepneys (with routes usually from Malanday to Recto, Santa Cruz, Divisoria, Pier 15 South Harbor & T. M. Kalaw in Manila and Grace Park & Monumento in Caloocan and Malinta to Malolos City, Baliuag and Sta. Maria along MacArthur Highway) for general mass transportation, tricycles (or trikes) for small-scale transportation and taxicabs for upper middle classes.

DPWH classifies annual average daily traffic in Valenzuela as very high; majority of roads have traffic flow exceeding 20,000 vehicles per day.

Annual average daily traffic data

Road name	KM station	Road length (m)	Total daily traffic
East Service Road		5,446	14,439
G. Fernando St.		270	8,427
G. Lazaro St.		1,590	8,952
Gen. San Miguel St.		762	20,053
Gen. T. de Leon St.		3,433	14,222
Gov. I. Santiago St.		4,706	25,507
Kaybiga Road		2,136	7,563
MacArthur Highway		7,207	45,502
M.H. del Pilar Street	K0013+000	3,526	13,809
Novaliches-San Jose Road	K0024+900	4,640	19,636
Polo-Novaliches Road		4,495	18,233
Polo-Pugad Baboy Road		2,605	5,155
West Service Road		1,612	9,866
Total		42,428	211,364
Average		3,263.69	16,259

There are no airports and ports in Valenzuela.